Map of nuclear power reactors in the USA (image from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission - http://www.nrc.gov) How does a Canadian-American professor of uranium mineralogy living in the unassuming American Midwest respond to the one-year anniversary of Fukushima?

Graduate student Dustin Mix works with community members in Léogâne to develop plans for engineered housing. (credit: A. Taflanidis) Suppose, for a moment, that you were presented with an opportunity to put what you learned in the classroom, what you learned in the lab, what you learned in the field to use for the benefit of hundreds of thousands of people.

Nuclear scientists of tomorrow look and act a lot like any other group of young adults. They wear nice clothes to conferences, they laugh at all my jokes, and they get really excited when they talk about their passions.

Michael Lombardi, a former biology and environmental science teacher at Rutherford High School in Panama City, Florida, loved to teach evolution. "I really liked that I could debunk some of the myths," says Lombardi.

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